Rebecca Kastl wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Drew Jones wrote:
>
> > Problem:
> > Users of Redhat 7 may have their umask set insecurely while acting
> > as root.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the "problem" with su, not
> /etc/profile?
su(1) on AT&T-derived Unixes fix this: there's a file /etc/defaults/su
(IIRC) which sets certain user defaults whether you do "su -" or just
plain "su". I've used both, but I think I prefer the Red Hat way: it's
more predictable because you know that without the - you keep your
current environment, and with it you overwrite your current environment
with the target user's. With the AT&T way, you don't know with plain
"su" what your environment will look like without looking at
/etc/defaults/su first.
--
Warren
